Antimicrobial peptides
Subtitle: methods and protocols
By: edited by Andrea Giuliani, Andrea C. Rinaldi
Series: Methods in molecular biology -- 618
Publisher: Humana Press/Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9781607615934; 9781607615941
Subjects: Peptide antibiotics; Microbial pesticides; Therapeutic use; Anti-Infective Agents; Innate Immunity; Antimicrobial Cationic Peptides
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Antimicrobial peptides in frog skin secretions / J. Michael Conlon and Agnes Sonnevend; title: Purification of antimicrobial peptides from human skin / Jens-M. Schröder; title: Strategies for the isolation and characterization of antibacterial lantibiotics / Daniela Jabes and Stefano Donadio; title: Expression and purification of recombinant [alpha]-defensins and [alpha]-defensin precursors in Escherichia coli / Sharel Figueredo ... [et al.]; title: Production of recombinant antimicrobial peptides in bacteria / Mateja Zorko and Roman Jerala; title: Methods for building quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) descriptors and predictive models for computer-aided design of antimicrobial peptides / Olivier Taboureau; title: Synthesis and thermodynamic characterization of small cyclic antimicrobial arginine and tryptophan-rich peptides with selectivity for gram-negative bacteria / Mojtaba Bagheri; title: Synthesis of antimicrobial peptides using the SPOT technique / Dirk F.H. Winkler and Kai Hilpert; title: High-throughput screening for antimicrobial peptides using the SPOT technique / Kai Hilpert; title: Antimicrobial peptides : the LPS connection / Andrea Giuliani, Giovanna Pirri, and Andrea C. Rinaldi; title: Binding and permeabilization of model membranes by amphipathic peptides / Paulo F. Almeida and Antje Pokorny; title: Comparing bacterial membrane interactions of antimicrobial peptides and their mimics / Nathaniel P. Chongsiriwatana and Annelise E. Barron; title: Dynamic transitions of membrane-active peptides / Stephan L. Grage, Sergii Afonin, and Anne S. Ulrich; title: Solid-state NMR investigations of membrane-associated antimicrobial peptides / Christopher Aisenbrey, Philippe Bertani, and Burkhard Bechinger; title: Use of atomic force microscopy as a tool to understand the action of antimicrobial peptides on bacteria / Ang Li ... [et al.]; title: Fluorescence and electron microscopy methods for exploring antimicrobial peptides mode(s) of action / Ludovica Marcellini ... [et al.]; title: Molecular simulations of antimicrobial peptides / Allison Langham and Yiannis N. Kaznessis; title: Computer-based analysis, visualization, and interpretation of antimicrobial peptide activities / Ralf Mikut; title: Potential therapeutic application of host defense peptides / Lijuan Zhang and Timothy J. Falla; title: Therapeutic potential of HDPs as immunomodulatory agents / Håvard Jenssen and Robert E.W. Hancock; title: Assay systems for measurement of anti-inflammatory activity / Evelina Rubinchik and Christopher Pasetka; title: Measuring antimicrobial peptide activity on epithelial surfaces in cell culture / Gill Diamond ... [et al.]; title: Antimicrobial and antibiofilm activity of quorum sensing peptides and peptide analogues against oral biofilm bacteria / Karen LoVetri and Srinivasa Madhyastha; title: Characterization of the leishmanicidal activityof antimicrobial peptides / Juan Román Luque-Ortega and Luis Rivas.